I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.

In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.

I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.

Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.